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Facebook: number of employees 2004-2017

Number of Facebook employees from 2004 to 2017 (full-time)

The data displays the number of full-time Facebook employees from 2004 to 2017. As of December 2017, 25,105 people were employed by the social networking company, up from 150 people in 2006. In 2015, total key executive compensation amounted to 64.3 million USD. Key executives of the company include CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as COO Sheryl Sandberg, and CFO David Wehner.

In 2003, a sophomore at Harvard University named Mark Zuckerberg, hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students.

2004 7
2005 15
2006 150
2007 450
2008 850
2009 1218
2010 2127
2011 3200
2012 4619
2013 6337
2014 9199
2015 12691
2016 17048
2017 25105